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I don't know what's wrong with it. Just using xu has much lower CPU usage then running VPDAU codec enabled in Smplayer. The video becomes really choppy and entire system begins to lag. Have to revert ...

There used to be a vaapi build of mplayer but it doesn't seem to be maintained any more and doesn't work in Vivid.
Default mplayer2 build from the repo uses 40% of CPU during 720p playback. Same as ...

I struggle with SWF objects and Gecko media player. I will not simply detect .SWF video pages. How to fix this?
All other formats seem fine except that it will not embed them directly in page, when ...

How can I bind character keys to command? Like binding RIGHT seek +5 and something like that but with character keys like a, b, c etc.
UPDATE
This answer (which this question is marked as duplicate ...

So I made a move halfway across the world and I am real happy I can still listen to my favorite music station back home, but the problem is the time difference is 12 hours so I am always listening in ...

In Ubuntu 14.04,I run ./configure --enable-gui --enable-xvid-lavc --enable-xv --enable-alsa to install mplayer,when it comes to Checking for FFmpeg .... then the error shows up. I cat config.log, the ...

Last night I upgraded to 14.04 from 13.10. After reboot, I can't play mp4 videos on smplayer. (and also from mplayer using terminal) I get following error.
:~$ mplayer '/home/vishwaje/Desktop/A-ha - ...

I can play region 2 dvds perfectly and I thought I could play region 1 dvds as well but I just bought one on ebay and it won't play in vlc, totem, smplayer, mplayer, xine or handbrake.
Apparently if ...

Ever since I upgraded to 14.04 I've had problems with my smplayer playback. I thought it might be an upgrade issue and so I fresh-installed the OS and installed smplayer first thing, still the same ...

I have SMplayer on ubuntu 13.10 and it works perfectly, but when I tried to play a video with an ass file"Arabic language", it doesn't show the correct font formatting from the subtitle file, instead ...

Is there any way to copy the current subtitle line to the clipboard or direct it into a different app? For example, while MPlayer is paused extract the line that is currently on the frame and send it ...